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hippodames

hippodames is the plural of hippodame.

Meaning of hippodame

Noun

hippodame (plural hippodames)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A sea horse or hippocampus.
    • on every syde / They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, / That his swift charet might have passage wyde / Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about hippodames

What is hippodames the plural of?
Hippodames is the plural of hippodame.

Words near hippodames in the dictionary

  1. hippocrepians
  2. hippocrepiform
  3. hippodame
  4. Hippodamea
  5. Hippodameia
  6. hippodames
  7. Hippodamia
  8. Hippodamian
  9. hippodrome
  10. hippodromed
  11. hippodromes

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